Sega Master System: Unreleased Graphics Tablet

Despite the fact that in the 1980s children were annoying their parents by asking them to buy a computer to do their homework, now we can safely admit that the only reason we needed it was, of course, games. With this in mind, we can say that the Master System prefix almost spawned a whole generation of digital artists - with the help of an unpublished Sega graphics tablet Graphics Board . Although it seemed that it had long been lost somewhere in the archives, a group of researchers on the history of 8-bit Sega managed to get a working prototype of this accessory and software for it.



Although today this set can serve only as a game relic, you should pay attention to how remarkable it was for its time. The Sega Graphic Board tablet, dated as early as 1987, was a completely working graphic input tablet capable of accepting data input through the stylus. On a 176x144 pixel canvas, the user could create his own 16-color drawing using various tools, such as a pencil, an eraser, a fill, and several shapes.
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In addition, it was assumed that this impressive set, even if it was not released in Europe, would be compatible with Mega Drive with a floppy disk drive connected to it - presumably for saving images and loading them in the future. The Japanese were more fortunate: they were able to hold in their hands an earlier version of the device for the SG-1000.

SMSPower recently managed to get its hands on the only known prototype of the Sega Graphic Board - after an auction on eBay , in which the kit was sold for a substantial amount of $ 2,247. The new owners showed incredible generosity and laid out in the free access to the network ROM disk with the accompanying software. Despite the beauty of this gesture, in order to fully appreciate the work of this software, one cannot do without the Graphic Board itself, yet another piece of the game history is not lost for future generations.